Working On The Highway Lyrics - Live: 1975-85 (3cd) - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

Friday night's pay night, guys fresh out of work 

Talking about the weekend, scrubbing off the dirt 

Some heading home to their families, some looking to get hurt 

Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts 

I work for the county out on ninety five 

All day I hold a red flag and watch the traffic pass me by 

In my head I keep a picture of a pretty little miss 

Someday, mister, I'm gonna lead a better life than this 

Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop 

Working on the highway, all day long I don't stop 

Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock 

Working on the highway, working on the highway 

I met her at a dance down at the union hall 

She was standing with her brothers, back up against the wall 

Sometimes we'd go walking down the union tracks 

One day I looked straight at her and she looked straight back 

So I'm 

Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop 

Working on the highway, all day long I don't stop 

Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock 

Working on the highway, working on the highway 

I saved up my money and I put it all away 

I went to see her daddy but we didn't have much to say 

"Son, can't you see that she's just a little girl 

She don't know nothing about this cruel, cruel world" 

We lit out down to Florida, we got along all right 

One day her brothers came and got her and they took me in a black-and-white 

The prosecutor kept the promise that he made on that day 

And the judge got mad and he put me straight away 

I wake up every morning to the work bell clang 

Me and the warden go swinging on the Charlotte County road gang 

I'm 

Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop 

Working on the highway, all day long I don't stop 

Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock 

Working on the highway, working on the highway 

Working on the highway, laying down the blacktop 

Working on the highway, all day long I don't stop 

Working on the highway, blasting through the bedrock 

Working on the highway, working on the highway